How to Reboot STEM Education

Teaching STEM today is one of the best ways that we’ll prepare our students to compete in a competitive, global economy. And it’s one of the ways that businesses can really involve themselves with the education of our young people.

Some of Slate’s ideas included:

Putting cool engineers and scientists on TV

Making science public by bringing it out of the lab and showcasing it–the same way we do for public art

Creating better student loans for STEM majors

If your business can help, or if you can think of another way to improve STEM education, then start a PENCIL Partnership today.

Because we need to do a better job of teaching these subjects, and we need to start now: a recent study from the National Assessment of Educational Programs found that only 32% of US eighth-grade students are performing at or above a proficient level in science, and only 2% of eighth graders are performing at an advanced level.